On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:45 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > Daniel did find it hard. I do not know or understand why. I do know he > > did not like working within the existing system > > I'd like to comment on my own experience. > > I started at Docs in December 2002, about six months before > Daniel did. I found working there one of the most frustrating > experiences of my life (and I've been in the workforce since well > before Daniel was born).
Likewise. > > I won't go into a lot of boring detail on this, but the short > version is that my contributions went into the IssueZilla system > and never emerged, despite several reviews and repeated requests > for them to be published. You have said this before but I cannot find the issues. Help me out here with numbers. There should be no reason that good stuff was not published. Just one would help. I would like to see exactly what the problem was. > > I certainly would say that *I* "did not like working within the > existing system", but only because the existing system did not > work... it was like a black hole into which stuff went and never > emerged. Yes. I can understand that. I remember offering to talk you through getting an ssh tunnel working. So I do see what barriers there might be. I do not know how to make the process easier as I have no control over Sourcecast and can only submit issues when I find something that needs fixing. I have tried to do that. > > From what I've read, Daniel and many other people have had > exactly the same experience I did. > I am sure this is true. > My response was to go off and write a book of my own which I > self-published outside of OOo and later sold to O'Reilly. > I know I bought one. > Daniel's response was to start another project and get people > involved in it. I think he should be praised for his initiative, > not accused (by some) of dividing the community. In my opinion, > Daniel's response was much more community-minded than mine was. > Yes he did. I supported his initial efforts. As dividing the community, I am not the one recruiting actively in NLC or anywhere else for that matter. So your point is I disagree with OOoAuthors policies, then yes I do. I have also stated my issues with the current state of affairs. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
